Henry Baltazar is research director of the 451 Research Storage channel within S&P Global Market Intelligence, with a focus on data storage. In his current role, Henry analyzes the market trends around environmental, social and governance (ESG) storage challenges, infrastructure modernization and resiliency. He publishes reports on trends in data storage, disaster recovery and hybrid cloud. He is often cited as a subject expert by publications such as MIT Technology Review, Forbes and TechTarget. Henry arrived at S&P Global Market Intelligence through its 2019 acquisition of 451 Research, where he began working as an analyst in August 2006. After spending three years running the storage research practice at Forrester, he returned to 451 Research in 2015 to fill the research director role and lead the storage practice. Henry graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a bachelor’s degree in environmental sciences.
Databases and storage infrastructure are critical components that have to work in concert with AI plans. Returning guests Henry Baltazar and James Curtis join host Eric Hanselman to discuss what's been happening and what enterprises need to know about the future.
The vendor's recent customer event in San Diego served as a launchpad for its next wave of products and services. Veeam continues to grow its customer base and revenue at a rapid pace while expanding its portfolio to take advantage of evolving requirements for security and the rise of new workloads such as generative AI.
The company has launched a new storage-as-a-service offering and content-aware platform to help customers address their storage challenges. IBM Storage Ceph as a Service provides unified block, object and file storage services to help organizations consolidate and manage data, while IBM Storage Scale is designed to handle unstructured data.
At a recent launch event, the vendor announced key enhancements to its lead all-flash PowerStore product, as well as its ObjectScale and PowerScale platforms, which are designed for large unstructured data workloads. It also unveiled significant upgrades to its data-protection lineup with the new all-flash PowerProtect Data Domain.
The vendor recently revealed that Meta was its first hyperscaler win for its DirectFlash Module and DirectFlash software. The new FlashBlade//EXA platform is designed to eliminate metadata bottlenecks via a disaggregated architectural approach, mitigating small-file performance limitations that slow down traditional parallel file systems.
Formerly known as Panasas, VDURA has rebranded while sharpening its focus on creating software-defined storage offerings to support AI and other enterprise workloads. The vendor recently launched the VDURA V5000 All-Flash Appliance to provide the performance and durability required to support challenging AI and high-performance computing workloads.
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